Tom Stoppard Quotes

I have always believed that there is no such thing as coincidence, and I have always believed in destiny.

Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.

All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate.

I'm a very big believer in fate.

I think some things are just meant to happen; you can't change your fate. Maybe we have a small amount of control.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

Man blindly works the will of fate.

I believe in fate.

I disagree with the idea that everything happens for a reason.

There are those who hold that there is a pattern to all that is said and done in this world, that no thing happens without reason nor out of time. As to that, I cannot speak, for I have seen too many threads cut short to believe it, but of a surety, I have seen too the weft of my fate shuttled on the loom. If there is a pattern, I do not think there is anyone among us who can stand at a great enough distance to discern it; yet I will not say that it is not so.

I believe in science but I also believe in fate.

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.

Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity.

When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

Do yourself a favor. Don't ever say to me, 'Everything happens for a reason.'

I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.